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"Culture is the heritage of us all. some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no one can fail to take a pride in his country's participation in the story of mankind, as represented in carvings, sculpture, music, paintings and the other arts. And there is a personal commitment to this, for no man can really say he is alone: we are all joined through our identity, with the cultures which are part of the mainstream of life"

- Simon Kapwepwe, Zambian Independence Freedom Fighter

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm"- Winston Churchill

"Try to be the rainbow in someone else's cloud"- Maya Angelou

"Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinion drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition"- Steve Jobs

Thursday, 13 February 2014

LEMBA: African Female Bloggers and the Metamorphosis of Love

Tomorrow as I have mentioned I will be speaking with other wonderful African women about the "Metamorphosis of Love". This all happened because one of my Stanford besties happens to be besties with Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah of the Adventures from the bedrooms of African Women. I crashed her bday party while falling in love with Ghana in January and afterwards reached out without looking like too much of a stalker fan (ahem I hope he he he).

In my early days of blogging, the Adventures blog was one of my go-to sites for inspiration. I was so impressed by how bold these women were as, sex is such a taboo subject on the continent. So is love. We talk about AIDS and the perils of fornication, and if we do talk about love and sex it's in a church during a wedding where you are given blessing to copulate for procreation and where love is celebrated in a very traditional fashion for a coupla hours. I digress, as I was saying, this blog inspired me to blaze my own trail with my own voice. They disappeared for a while, which led me to believe they had been abducted by the forces of silence, but they thankfully came back.

Nana introduced me to Malaka Gyekye Grant, the other half of Adventures. And then it clicked after a couple of exchanges that she is the woman of Mind of Malaka whom I had stumbled upon after looking for the original of You Intellectual Scum account and I had another round of geeking out on Twitter with her. Both have been so kind as to think that I may have something to say about love and the African woman. I have not blogged much about the subject to be discussed - this post is the only one completely dedicated to it in the Love tag is and I have only made one PSA about safe sex, though I did speak about sexual choices in this post and discrimination here. I basically have skirted around both issues, only really directly addressing them in the first year of the blog and in the AIDS tag.

Check out the other ladies who will be a part of the Metamorphis of Love Google+ Hangout at 19:00 CAT, 17:00GMT which will be facilitated by Malaka and produced by Nana:

And just for Malaka, as promised, I appeal to a baller Nigeria to be pimpin' and donate to Blogging Ghana's indiegogo campaign to help Ghanaian bloggers tell more stories. Or anyone else with deep pockets for that matter :)...

@AbenaGyekye how about I get a Nigerian baller to give on this poor Zambian's behalf ha ha ha! When is the deadline, waiting to get paid...
— Ngosa Chungu (@whoops_c) February 10, 2014

About MbA

Ngosa Chungu is a Stanford, London School of Economics and University of Southern California alum who is committed to positively changing the face of the African continent, its people and its culture in global media. She has worked in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, for the BBC in London and helped set up the Leadership, Entrepreneurship and African Studies curriculum at the African Leadership Academy in South Africa. Her professional passions include creating quality proudly Zambian and positively African media content for on and offline platforms. She uses blogging and social media to also personally contribute to the creation of African content online.

Currently she is promoting her first documentary film, e18hteam (eighteam), about the Zambian National Team: the Chipolopolo's triumph at AFCON 2012 in Gabon after the country suffered a terrible loss in 1993 due to a tragic plan crash taking the lives of 18 of the then football team in the same place. For more information go to http://www.facebook.com/e18hteam and http://twitter.com/e18hteam